Over the River and Through the Wood - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children''s Poetry

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

About the author

Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her books include Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924

Summary

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Kilcup, Karen L. Kilcup, Karen L. (Professor of American Literature Kilcup, Karen L. Sorby Kilcup
• Assisted by: Karen L Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. (Professor of American Literature and Environmental Studies Kilcup (Editor), Angela Sorby (Editor), Angela (Associate Professor Sorby (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2014
• EAN: 9781421411408
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1140-8
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies